How To Transfer Vinyl From Cricut Mat

You will need to use your standardgrip mat for cutting vinyl and it s great if you also have the basic tool set or essential tool set to hand.

How to transfer vinyl from cricut mat.

I selected iron on but there are options for glitter iron on foil iron on patterned iron on etc. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. If you select the cricut maker to cut your iron on heat transfer vinyl you ll be prompted to set your material. You can still use shorter by placing them on a standardgrip mat.

You will use the fine point blade that comes with all machines. Transfer tape can be used over and over again till the stickiness is gone. Peel liner from transfer tape. Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat.

Weed away the background heat transfer vinyl using a weeding hook to get the small pieces like the centers of letters. Transfer tape works for most vinyl types. Flip the mat over and gently peel the mat away from the heat transfer vinyl holding the vinyl flat against the table to keep it from curling. When i selected the material the machine prompted me to insert the mat.

You can use any of the cricut machines with heat transfer vinyl. Stronggrip transfer tape is too strong for other vinyl types. The vinyl has two layers the paper layer that keeps it in place when. And of course you will need some vinyl to cut as well as some transfer tape to apply your vinyl both of which you can get from cricut directly or from any good craft store.

If your cricut mat gets a lot of lint on it and you don t want to take time to clean it take an old piece of transfer tape and dab it all over the mat.